TITLE: Literary Birthday Celebration: Langston Hughes
SPEAKER: Dolores Kendrick, Evie Shockley
EVENT DATE: 02/01/2012
FORMAT: Video + Captions
RUNNING TIME: 49 minutes
TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link will open in a new window)
DESCRIPTION:
Poets Dolores Kendrick and Evie Shockley celebrate the birthday of American poet Langston Hughes by reading selections from his work and discussing his influence on their own writing.
Speaker Biography: Dolores Kendrick is poet laureate of the District of Columbia. She is the author of the award-winning "The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women," as well as "Why the Woman Is Singing on the Corner: A Verse Narrative," a collection of poems on homeless women. Kendrick has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the George Kent Award for Literature; she is the first Vira I. Heinz professor emerita at Phillips Exeter Academy.
Speaker Biography: Evie Shockley is the author of two books of poetry, "the new black" and "a half-red sea" (Carolina Wren Press, 2006), and two chapbooks, "31 words * prose poems" and "The Gorgon Goddess."
